Source: Poverty Solutions
New findings from a University of Michigan survey of Detroiters showing the top challenges households face in their daily lives and how they would like city leadership to respond have implications for Detroit’s mayoral election in November.
Safety or crime tops the list, with 17.7% of Detroiters saying it’s one of the top three major challenges faced by their households, followed by neighborhood conditions (16.4%), employment (15%), housing (14.9%), transportation (14.2%), schools (12.5%) and gettingv the food they need (12%).
That’s according to a representative survey of Detroit residents conducted by the Detroit Metro Area Communities Study at U-M in partnership with Outlier Media.
An issue brief released today from DMACS, with support from U-M’s Poverty Solutions, offers analysis of the survey results to see what Detroiters say would make a difference in addressing the challenges they face.
